Petroleum Boom In Oklahoma

St. Louis, Oot. A Perry, O. T., special says: Great excitemeut exists in the eastern part of this county and in Pawnea county, in the Osage Indiau nation, over the discovery of oil in great qUantities. It has leaked out ihat the Standard Oil corupany has secured optious on thousands oí acres, and twenty other companies have purchased leases consisting of many thousands of acres.